Alumni Update
World Events:
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LAST 50 YEARS
- 1975 - Microsoft Founded
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1976 - Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens
- 1977 - Star Wars Movie Released
- 1978 - First Test-Tube Baby Born
- 1979 - Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island
- 1980 - Mount St. Helens Erupts
- 1981 - New Plague Identified as AIDS
- 1983 - Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called Star Wars
- 1984 - Vietnam War Memorial Opened in Washington, DC
- 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika
- 1986 - Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes
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1989 - Berlin Wall Falls
- 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union
- 1991 - Operation Desert Storm
- 1992 - Riots in Los Angeles After the Rodney King Verdict
- 1994 - Channel Tunnel Opens, Connecting Britain and France
- 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated
- 1997 - Scientists Clone Sheep
- 1999 - Panama Canal Returns to Panama
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2000 - US Supreme Court decides in favor of George W, Bush in split decision over 2000
- 2000 - Sony launches the PlayStation 2.
- 2001 - Terrorists hijack 4 US airlines, and crash them. World Trade Center in New York City destroyed.
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2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia is destroyed during re-entry into the atmosphere.
